Posts in category: food

I thought I was doing good with my ability to avoid sugar, years ago.It wasn’t even that difficult, honestly. I was just favouring zero-calorie sodas or sugar-free sweets, where sugar was substituted with artificial sweeteners. The most important thing, a ...

How my love for animals, and the consequent decision to switch to a plant-based diet, saved my mental health. But it's still not what you may think.
This is what happened.
I felt deeply connected to animals, I didn’t want to hurt them, my emotions ...

I know you are a smart one and I am sure you have noticed all the information out there alerting you about the many products where sugar has been added unnecessarily. Well, not completely unnecessarily since it is needed as a flavour enhancer and as a pre ...

This article I read last week made me think. In short, it says that if you claim a recipe is vegan or vegetarian in the menu or on the packaging, you are less likely to sell it than if you had omitted those two words. Same thing if you say it is healthy. ...

"How do you like a glass of wine?"
"Oh no! I steer clear of wine and beer because I know the sugar will make me put on weight".
Mmm… Really? That is indeed the common belief around alcohol and its sugar content but I am afraid it is not 100% accurate. At ...

How to confront sugar temptations at breakfast and win.
Some people find it particularly hard to avoid sugar in the morning. There might be many valid reasons for that, both emotional and physical. We will not delve into the possible emotional triggers th ...

At the end of my last post a few days back I promised I would share a recipe with you. Which is strange to me. And the fact that it is strange to me might sound strange to you considering my life revolves around food.
The thing is that, since Sugarlibre, ...

You need to do something.“Di necessità virtù”, they say. It’s Italian, it means to turn a need into a virtue.I have recently experienced this concept while creating Sugarlibre. It pains to admit it, but I was in no wealthy place. I had decided to dedicate ...

All too often we are so caught up in our routine and busy schedule, that we neglect to listen to the real signals our body is sending us. We only capture the survival-mode smoke signals and look for immediate gratification to those ones. I call them Survi ...

What if I told you it’s about the journey, not the destination?
Recently, I have found myself thinking that abandoning sugar is the key to finding balance with food. Considering how sugar keeps itself busy messing up the road traffic in our ...